Tag Archive for ‘Persons of Interest’

Stay Alive with Information Sharing

Alex Eastman recalls a childhood game, and ponders how information sharing among government and law enforcement agencies can help ensure you don’t lose your marbles.

Connecting the Dots Isn’t What It Used to Be

Today, there is an intense push for accuracy in our data and, particularly, in our ability to accurately “connect the dots.” More information and more fragmented data is leading data analysts to look for ways to link information together to improve accuracy thereby improving the usefulness of systems depending on that data. Join us for this webinar to learn how we’re addressing the problem.

Entity Resolution Taken One Step Further: “Spot The Difference”

Jarrett Goldfedder breaks down entity resolution into terms even his 7-year-old can understand. Can you spot the difference between ponies? If so, you can understand and apply the basics of entity resolution.

See You at DoDIIS

We’re very excited about one of our favorite conferences – DoDIIS, which begins next week (May 23-27) in Phoenix. Jeff Huth previews Initiate’s activities at DoDIIS – we hope to see you there!

Hot Topics from Palantir GovCon5

Initiate recently attended Palantir’s GovCon5 in Tyson’s Corner. Jeff Huth was on site and had a few observations about the show’s hot topics.

Meeting an Olympic-Size Security Challenge

Imagine all the dots that must be connected in order to make an event like the Olympics a “non-event” from a security perspective. Imagine how much information must be accessed, correlated, matched and securely exchanged for everything to run smoothly. Scott Schumacher examines the three critical aspects for security: pre-event information analysis, personnel vetting, and a coordinated real-time reaction to any threat that may emerge.

Webinar: Relationships are the Lines that Connect the Dots

What is your data trying to tell you? In intelligence gathering, there is great value in understanding non-obvious relationships to multiple degrees of separation. Detecting non-obvious relationships – such as when two people share an address but not other identifying details – can be extraordinarily beneficial to law enforcement and counter-terrorism efforts.

An Economic Business Case for Entity Resolution

Usually you think of lives saved and a nation protected when you think about combating terrorism. The cost-benefit seems obvious. Economists at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a model to create an economic return on investment for counter-terrorism budgets. Jeff Huth explores the implications of this model.

What You Missed: Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching

Our January 28 webinar, “Demystifying Multi-Cultural Name Matching in the Context of Entity Resolution,” drew quite a crowd, with attendees from various government agencies, systems integrators and consultants specializing in data quality and data governance issues. Download the replay to see what you missed.

Building a New Watchlist System

Perhaps more important than creating a tiered system of watchlists is developing means by which someone gets added to or removed from a list. If I was president of my own country and I wanted to build a new watchlist system, I would require the system to have two key characteristics: be dynamic, and risk-based.